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No wars or conditions abroad (& no domestic or global economic pretexts) justify government policy facilitating the invasion of ancestral European homelands, the rape of European women, the destruction of European societies, & the genocide of Europeans.
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Showing posts with label Green Party (Sweden). Show all posts
Showing posts with label Green Party (Sweden). Show all posts

May 12, 2016

Swedish Greens Spill




http://www.jta.org/2016/05/10/news-opinion/world/swedish-deputy-pm-who-called-911-attacks-accidents-resigns

Swedish deputy PM, who called 9/11 attacks ‘accidents,’ resigns
May 10, 2016 12:16pm  

(JTA) — Sweden’s deputy prime minister, who called the 9/11 attacks “accidents” and described the migrant crisis in Europe as “the new Auschwitz,” is leaving the government.

Asa Romson confirmed on Monday afternoon that she would step down after her Green Party made moves to replace her, the English-language news website for Swedish news, The Local.se, reported. She also served as agriculture minister in the government coalition in which Green is a junior partner.

On April 18, Romson made the “accidents” remark in an interview with the SVT broadcaster. The 2001 attacks in New York and Washington by the al-Qaida terrorist group killed more than 3,000 people.

She walked back her comments the next day.

“Obviously, the attack on New York on Sept. 11, 2001, was one of the biggest attacks and acts of terror and atrocities against the peaceful and democratic world that we have seen in modern times. I don’t dispute that,” Romson told Aftonbladet. “The accident is that we got a very harsh debate on integration and on societal development with different religions side by side and subsequent discrimination.”

Romson made the comments in defending the work of Mehmet Kaplan, Sweden’s Turkish-born former housing minister, with Muslim youths in the early 2000s. Kaplan, also a member of the Green Party, resigned after a 2009 video surfaced in which he said at a rally against racism that there are similarities between the persecution of Jews by Nazi Germany during the 1930s and the everyday lives of Palestinians.

Last year, Romson apologized for comparing the deaths of migrants from the Middle East en route to Europe to the industrialized extermination of Jews at the Nazi death camp Auschwitz in southern Poland.

“We are in Europe turning the Mediterranean into the new Auschwitz,” she said during a televised debate.

Romson also walked back that comment, which she described as “ill-conceived,” after politicians and Jewish community leaders accused her of abusing the memory of Holocaust victims.


http://www.jta.org/2016/05/10/news-opinion/world/swedish-deputy-pm-who-called-911-attacks-accidents-resigns



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Possible replacement:  Isabella Lövin 
(Swedish)
http://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/asa-romson-ersatts-av-isabella-lovin
 



COMMENT

It's official:  Swedish politicians are stupid ... in case you didn't already guess, while observing third world inundation of what was a fairly homogeneous people, and a country that's become top European rape-fest location and host of 55 no-go zones.
Politicians constantly resigning over causing some upset or other, by uttering mere words is getting to the point of ridiculous.  Especially, when you consider that Swedish women have been brutally raped and gang raped for decades in Sweden, while native Swedes are being dispossessed of their ancestral homeland, and nobody's resigning over that.




May 02, 2016

Swedish Green Party: Dismissal Stockholm City Council - Genocide Denial


Swedish Green Party
Derya Uzel Senir
deputy in the Stockholm City Council
relieved of duties ... ummmmm, sacked?

for:
Armenian Genocide Denial
resulting from statement before Turkish Youth Union 2014




SWEDISH
http://nyheter24.se/nyheter/politik/841756-miljopartist-fornekar-folkmord-sparkas-ut-fran-partiet



Miljöpartiet de gröna
ie Green Environment Party
aka 'Miljöpartiet' (MP)
f. 1981 - got onto the anti-nuclear wagon
-- a major factor in party's creation
-- good relationship with the Social Democrats
-- lesser extent, Left Party
-- but don't rule out bedding anyone

-- Eurosceptic, but support:
    -- 'social justice'
    -- 'global justice'
    -- 'feminism'
    -- pacifism
    -- 'equality'

they sound positively sh*t

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Party_%28Sweden%29


COMMENT


It looks like those in politics elect those in Church in Sweden (link above).

System not clear to me.







April 06, 2015

Sweden's Competing Political Agendas





GATESTONE INSTITUTE
Sweden's Christmas Present: New Laws Curbing Free Speech

by Timon Dias
December 22, 2014 at 4:00 am

http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4972/sweden-free-speech

    The problem is that within the extremely politically correct culture of Sweden, questions, insults and criticism are often viewed as one and the same.

    "Swedes who disagree... risk being labeled racist, fascist, even Nazi." — Mikael Jalving, Author of Absolute Sweden.

    One might well ask how Swedes would react if other countries decided to determine their borders.

    Furthermore, no one seems to have asked what kind of place this new state of Palestine might be: a free, democratic and transparent society like Sweden, or another rogue state, or eventually even another Islamist state.

    Apart from South Africa, Sweden now has the highest number of rapes (that are reported); based on unofficial accounts from policemen and social workers, about 75% of them are committed by Muslims.
Sweden, during its September 2014 parliamentary election, voted in a new government. But whom exactly did the people of Sweden elect to run their new government? In a recent (albeit un-sourced) blog, Ilya Meyer, the deputy chair of the Sweden-Israel Friendship Association, shed some light on the backgrounds and motivations of some of Sweden's new cabinet ministers. A few individuals stand out.

The Minister for Housing and Urban Development is the Turkish Swede Mehmet Kaplan, who was aboard the Turkish vessel Mavi Marmara, of the Turkish extremist Humanitarian Relief Foundation, when it tried to break through the legal Israeli naval blockade of the Gaza coastline. Israel had established the naval blockade in 2007 in response to the smuggling of weapons into Gaza to arm the terrorist group Hamas, which is outspokenly dedicated to exterminating Israel.

Kaplan has also stated that young European Muslims who are joining the "Islamic State" [IS] in Syria and Iraq are nothing to worry about, and are just similar to Swedish fighters who joined the Finns in WW2 to fight the Soviet Union. He has also claimed at the same time that the main reason young European Muslims are joining the Islamic State is "Western Islamophobia."

Sweden's Minister of Education, Gustav Fridolin, was arrested in Israel in 2003 for allegedly blocking the construction of Israel's security barrier in the West Bank, where he has engaged in protests alongside the International Solidarity Movement – an organization that "recognizes armed struggle as the right of Palestinian Arabs."

Sweden's Minister of Interior, Ardalan Shekarabi, who is also responsible for Domestic Law and Order, is a former illegal immigrant from Iran who defied a Swedish deportation order in 1989 by going into hiding. Shekarabi is also known for embezzling state funds for an integration project to aid in his reelection as leader of the Social-Democratic Youth Party.

Sweden's Minister for Culture and Democracy, Alice Bah Kuhnke is a hard-line feminist known for threatening to cut off funds to organizations that oppose honor killings if any of those funds went to men working against honor killings. As a feminist, it seems as if she wants only women to receive these funds.

These are not merely parliamentarians, these are ministers.

Not surprisingly, one of the first actions of this new government was the recognition of the Palestinian State, a move considered as illegal as it was odd: the Palestinians do not yet meet the requirements for statehood, and seem not even to have agreed on even what the borders of their state should be.

Furthermore, no one seems to have asked what kind of place this new state would be: a free, democratic and transparent society like Sweden, or one that might, in fact, be another rogue state, or eventually even another Islamist state. Nonetheless, Swedish MP Hillevi Larsson, as opposed to the Palestinians themselves, seems to have no doubt about what the borders of "Palestine" should be. One might well ask how Swedes would react if other countries decided to determine their borders.

In just two months, this government fell — new elections take place this March — but not before bestowing on the people of Sweden a second measure, far less publicized, and that will come into effect this Christmas. The new measure is designed to make it easier to prosecute those who offend immigrants, immigration policies, LGBT people and politicians online.

As Swedish MP Andreas Norlén, initiator and driving force behind the law, stated: "I do not think it takes very many prosecutions before a signal is transmitted in the community that the Internet is not a lawless country — the sheriff is back in town."

A multitude of online sources reported on this new law as one that "criminalizes online criticism of immigrants," and as such, the news went viral on European immigration critical websites. But is this a correct assessment of this new law?

According to the Swedish parliament, the new law will effectively abolish existing barriers that prevented people from pressing charges if their alleged defamation occurred online instead of in real life. It will facilitate and improve Sweden's ability to participate in international legal cooperation on matters covered by the Freedom of the Press and Freedom of Speech, and it enables people to avoid having to pay for the other party's legal costs.

On paper, this might sound reasonable, and there is a chance the practical results will remain reasonable as well. The problem is that within the extremely politically correct culture of Sweden, questions, insults and criticism are often viewed as one and the same. Mikael Jalving, the Danish journalist and author of the book "Absolute Sweden" stated: "Sweden's leftist establishment and media believe a cornerstone of their perfect society is multiculturalism — large-scale immigration from some of the poorest, most backward nations on Earth — and Swedes who disagree with that plan risk being labeled racist, fascist, even Nazi."

Even the immigrants themselves do not seem to be allowed to challenge immigration policy or immigrant culture. Last year, a Somali-born female journalist, critical of immigrant culture, was intimidated to such an extent by the Swedish journalistic establishment that she decided Mogadishu was a safer place for her than Sweden.

The ambivalence of Swedish courts toward free speech already became apparent when in 2002 a district court sentenced the white native Swedish neo-Nazi Fredrik Sandberg to six months in prison for publishing a Nazi pamphlet, "The Jewish Question." Four years later, however, the same official who initiated the case against Sandberg — Chancellor of Justice Göran Lambertzchose to discontinue an investigation into the Stockholm Central Mosque, after it distributed audiotapes that encouraged Muslims to kill Jews, described in them as "brothers of apes and pigs." He justified the discrepancy by saying that the distribution of the tapes should be judged in a geo-political context. Swedish society seems to be increasingly known for its bias in wanting to criminalize supposed racism by native Swedes against immigrants, while wanting to rationalize Muslim racism against native Swedes, and Jews in particular.

Sweden's third largest newspaper, Expressen, has used hackers affiliated with the left-wing extremist Anti-Fascist-Action group to obtain the addresses of individuals commenting on websites critical of mass immigration. The newspaper then visited their homes and in some instances, published their pictures and addresses. The Swedish TV station TV3 announced that the TV-show "troll-hunters," would visit online commentators in their homes — in a sort of 21st century televised witch-hunt.

The Swedish newspaper Expressen hacked databases of website commenters, targeted critics of immigration, and confronted them at home. The above screenshot is taken from a video on the Expressen website, published under the headline "Jim Olsson writes on hate sites."
This new law has the potential to carry that witch-hunt to the next level. Not only is the political-journalistic establishment intimidating critics of online immigration by knocking on their front doors and shaming them, but under this new law, they could even charge a perceived critic with committing a crime.

Economist Dr. Jan Tullburg published a book in which he states that annually, immigration costs Sweden 7% of its GDP. Sweden is also home to sizeable Muslim enclaves that have become off-limits to Swedish police. The multitude of violent riots that erupt in these enclaves not only cost millions of Krona but are undermining the fabric of Swedish society. Sweden apparently enjoys tolerating the intolerable.

In the meantime, apart from South Africa, Sweden now has the highest number of rapes (that are reported) in the world per capita (see UN "Statistics on Crime, Sexual Violence"). However, this number should be nuanced, as the term "rape" in Sweden is defined broadly and includes more than just forced, non-consensual intercourse. There are, however, rapes that are not being reported to the police at all. A significant percentage of these "rapes" are apparently committed by immigrants from a Muslim background. The Swedish government has refused to keep track of these numbers, which by definition cannot be exact, but multiple reports, based on unofficial accounts from policemen and social workers, put the percentage at around 75%. It must be emphasized that these numbers come from unofficial sources and cannot be verified since there aren't any official Swedish numbers on what percentage of rapes are committed by Muslim immigrants. But, Mohammed, for example, a 27-year-old illegal immigrant from Syria, who arrived in Sweden in September, has thus far sexually molested 21 girls and women between the ages of 4 and 69. According to a police report in neighboring Norway, a country politically similar to Sweden, 100% of all rapes in Oslo over the last five years were committed by Muslim immigrants. [Oslo figure seems improbable, but the figure is said to come from a 'police report', so it is presumably correct?]

It will be illuminating to see what impact this new law has on Sweden's citizenry and their free speech once it goes into effect this Christmas.

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Article grabbed my attention because of the reference to Expressen newspaper being involved in hacking databases of commenters, which is rather an unusual activity for a news outlet (I think?).
By my estimation, from other material I'd looked at, Gatestone Institute is a pro Israel NGO.  So that's worthwhile bearing in mind when looking at the article.  On the other hand, it's all relative, I guess.  For the pro Israel supporters, the arrest for blocking construction of a security barrier in Israel would not be seen in a positive light.  For Palestinian supporters, this would be seen as a positive form of protest.  

However, facts are facts and presumably Expressen was involved in hacking databases, or Gatestone would have been compelled not to disseminate this information.

There's a number of hot issues and conflicting political forces in Sweden.

Generalising from the contents of this article and from what I've read so far elsewhere:  there's a totalitarian quality to Sweden's liberalism, it would seem:  incursions into freedom of speech and media-led witch-hunts against those with opposing views; labelling of those with opposing views as extremists of one kind or another:  'nazi' or 'fascist'; a politically correct approach to crimes statistics gathering and, it would seem, a parallel justice system; physical no-go areas to police (which I found astounding); violence; and from what I've previously read, issues regarding cultural integration.

Find this stuff fascinating, but I haven't read enough to get a handle on what's really going on.  Looks to be very interesting competing political interests in Sweden.
Maybe I'm strange, but the most shocking thing for me was Expressen involved in hacking of databases.  I'm still spun out by that.
Thought the bit about 'free', 'democratic' and 'transparent' Sweden was quite a giggle. But I guess even freedom etc is relative?
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PS  Forgot to do a look-up regarding the Somali-born female journalist that was 'run out of town'.  Sounds an interesting story to check out, given this has occurred in 'feminist Sweden'.

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Players mentioned by Gatestone currently in the following posts:
Mehmet Kaplan (Green Party)
Housing urban development and IT Minister. Sweden.

Gustav Fridolin (Green Party)
Minister for Education

Ardalan Shekarabi (Swedish Social Democratic Party)
Minister for Public Administration (resides Belfast, Ireland)

Alice Bah Kuhnke (Green Party)
Minister of Culture and Democracy
Hillevi Larsson (Swedish Social Democratic Party)
Riksdag member  since 2004, Pro Palestinian

Andreas Norlén (Moderate Party)
Riksdag member  since 2006, 
* Norlén Initiator of online dissent silencing laws *
Göran Lambertz
Chancellor of Justice (Swedish: justitiekansler) Sweden
2001-2009
currently serving as a judge on the Supreme Court of Sweden
TV3 (Sweden)
owned by:  Viasat
Broadcasts from:  London
Markets:  Nordic and Baltic Countries
Visat owned by:  Modern Times Group

publicly traded

Industry              Media
Founded             1997
Headquarters     Stockholm, Sweden
Key people

                David Chance (Chairman)
                Jorgen Madsen (President & CEO)
                Mathias Hermansson (CFO)


Sweden is "one of the most capital-centralized countries in Europe" [Wikipedia]

 Look-ups = Wikipedia

March 11, 2015

It's On: Sweden Cancels Arms Agreement - Saudi Arabia Pulls Out Ambassador

SWEDEN








Abba performing Ring, Ring.
(C) 1973 Polar Music International AB








Eat Your Greens, Stefan
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Sweden calls off SaudiArabia arms deal over human rights.

Yeah, right. What's really going on here? Probably some quiet deal.

Diplomatic stand-off denied.

http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150310/1019318269.html#ixzz3U14IabW

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Sweden vs SaudiArabia 

It's On! Annika Söder meeting with ambassador / Saudi informed no arms deal.

Saudi's recalled their ambassador.  Unknown if he remains in country.

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GOOGLE TRANSLATE
AFTONBLADET

Saudi Arabia calls its ambassador
Saudi conflict escalates.

Saudi Arabia has called its ambassador from Stockholm, Aftonbladet can reveal.

Saudi Arabia called yesterday its ambassador in Stockholm, Ibrahim bin Saad bin Ibrahim Al-Brahim, according to data Aftonbladet.

- It is in this diplomatic game announced as a backlash from the Saudi side. There is an escalation of the situation, said a source familiar with.

Foreign Minister Wallström's press secretary Eric Boman confirm:

- UD learned yesterday informed that Saudi Arabia called its ambassador. If he remains in the country or not I do not know.

Kabinetssekreterare [Cabinet Secretary] Annika Söder had after telling a meeting with the ambassador yesterday.

- It was to inform that the MOU t (CMAA, editor's note) on military cooperation would be terminated. At the same meeting, we performed also

From the Saudi embassy would not say anything.

- I can not give any comments. It can only be the ambassador himself do, says an assistant at the ambassador's office.

He is in Sweden?

- No comments.

Is there anyone among you who can comment?

- No.

Yesterday afternoon, Saudi ambassador told that Sweden cancels military cooperation agreement with Saudiarbien. It all took place two days after Saudi Arabia stopped the Foreign Minister, Margot Wallström (S) from speaking on the Arab League meeting in Cairo, citing what she said earlier about democracy and human rights in the country.

Ibrahim bin Saad bin Ibrahim Al-Brahim, 71, has been the Saudi ambassador in Stockholm since last year. Before that he was Ambassador to the UAE, Tunisia and Egypt.

http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article20448477.ab
 

Annika Söder 

= diplomat & Cabinet Sec. MFA since Oct 2014 Söder originally journalist.

source: http://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/article20448477.ab … [Swe]

Further
Annika Söder

= diplomat & Cabinet Sec. MFA since Oct 2014
Söder originally journalist.
1982 State Department
Rank of ambassador

Sec of State for Development Cooperation + Humanitarian Affairs from 2002-06.

2007  appointed Assistant Director-General
Food + Agriculture Organization (FAO
Later also press + communications + cooperation
with civil society + business
Söder CEO Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation, Uppsala (2012)


Annika Söder
=  daughter of former Foreign Minister and the center conductor Karin Söder
    Married to retired Ambassador Anders Bjurner

[Wikipedia]

COMMENT

Quite enjoying the Sweden diplomatic and commercial fiasco, although I have nothing against Sweden itself.  It's the politicians in excruciating positions that I really enjoy.

It looks like Sweden has called off the deal, informing the Saudi Arabia ambassador, who has been recalled by his country.

Stefan Lofven has probably aged considerably in the last 48 hours or however long this drama's been playing out.  He would have had pressure from corporate types bearing down on him, on the one hand, and fellow politicians spitting the dummy and applying as much (if not more) pressure, on the other. 
More pressure was probably felt from fellow politicians, because if the Greens had quit the government (as I understand they threatened to do), it would have been all over for the SDP (who struggled to form a government).  Not sure what next step would have been in that event.  Maybe another deal like they had at Christmas, or maybe another election?

The Green party:
Ideology
  • Green politics
  • Soft euroscepticism
  • Feminism
Political position
  • Centre-left
Just as I was wondering how Avigdor Leiberman was taking this (as in, is he in stitches), I came across this Jewish Press article:
Sweden Rips Up Saudi Military Deal After Cairo Spat Over Human Rights


Was going to do a Jewish Press screen grab of text insert here re Margot Walstrom.
Margot rejected again by a Middle Eastern country ...
But I noticed you need permission & I couldn't be stuffed e-mailing to do that one tiny thing.


Do like the in your face, no mincing words, Jewish approach:  
"So Wallstrom was snubbed one more time ...".

Yep.  Wallstrom's in a pickle again.
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Someone else who doesn't mice words is this fella:


Lord High's tweets are always outrageous, attention grabbing and mostly very, very funny ...

But occasionally, they turn a little weird and I think:
'Mein Gott, did he just say that?', he's going to get himself arrested or something.
Not because I think he should be, but because I guess I imagine a far more authoritarian climate than it is.  Maybe it's reading all that surveillance, NSA, Five Eye and cable intercept stuff that's done my head in, but I just imagine the Stasi coming down on his twitterverse fun in no time, if he's not careful.



[Hoping this post makes sense.  Bit scattered right now.   Too much messing around with info., I think.]




January 08, 2015

SWEDEN - Nordic Battle Group 15 - Carl Bildt Blog


CARL BILDT BLOG

[GOOGLE TRANSLATION - Original Swedish]



What happens to NBG15? Is our preparedness enough? [Referring to Nordic Battle Group 15]

ROM: Since the beginning again stand a Nordic Battlegroup under Swedish leadership ready for the efforts that the EU could decide as part of its common foreign and security policy. [Take this says:  a Nordic Battle Group is on standby, under Swedish leadership or command, waiting for the EU say-so, to take part in 'foreign & security policy.']

It was in 1999, after the Kosovo war experiences, as the EU summit in Helsinki decided to extend its also military facilities, and in June 2004 there were more officially precisely these battle groups of battalion size that should be in constant readiness.  [By 2004, battalion sized battle groups were on constant readiness, I gather.]

As the EU had already in June 2003 in the so-called Operation Artemis conducted a successful military operation in the Congo to assist the UN in conjunction with the world organization with its little slower way of working would strengthen its peace efforts in the country.

And Operation Artemis was also something of a baptism of fire for the Swedish Special Forces who participated in it, and whose efforts came to be valued significantly high.

The idea has since been to the ever shall be two battle groups ready for action at short notice. And we had a Nordic battle deployable later than 2011.

However, it is so stridssgrupperna as such never been deployed, and therefore has doubts about the concept has gradually increased. Not inconsiderable resources are used to equip, train and keep them in readiness in the various countries.

Opportunities to use them has not been lacking.

In the last year, suddenly became current with an EU military operation in the Central African Republic to prevent what very well could have led to an outright genocide, I belonged to those who argued that the EU's battle group would be deployed.

That did
not work.

The reasons were a bit mixed.

The main responsibility for the battle which then stood in readiness low of Greece, and Athens was the interest to say the least weak. But equally important was that the man in Paris clearly preferred to put together something that was indeed the EU, but that clearly was under French command [  (1) Greece not on-board; (2) general lack of enthusiasm (3) Frenchies wanted to be commanders of forces.]

And the reason for that was that the course was about to reinforce and complement the French national strength which of course made the first rapid intervention in the country. [Maybe this says, French wanted to take the lead b/c the French  previously led a rapid response intervention in the African country in question.]

For me - then foreign minister, and fairly active in the discussion on the issue of ministerial circuit - this was unfortunately a sign that the battle groups of days maybe numbered.  [No idea.  Rotation based leadership of these groups was discussed?]

The situation in the Central African Republic was so close to the situations battle groups had been set up for that one could imagine:-threatening genocide, appeal from the UN, the need for rapid and limited effort.

But that did not happen. After considerable difficulties did you design the much more limited strength EUFOR RCA which now has a mandate that extends until March of this year.  [EUFOR RCA -- ie European Union Force Republic of Central Africa -- the weaker force was deployed.  Fully operational @ 700 troops in mid 2014.  Bet CB was spewing it wasn't something more grand, with him at the helm?]

Now, as our well trained and well equipped Nordic Battle Group in readiness for the next six months - 2,400 people from seven different countries.  [Now they've got the NBG @ 2,400 on standby & CB is just hanging for them to be deployed somewhere.]

If it will be deployed, I think the concept of EU battlegroups survive. If it does not, I think it will fade away.  [Ooh, if there isn't a deployment, EU battle groups are kaput.]

The speculation in the Irish press - Ireland is also part of the workforce - is spoken about possible interventions in Southern Sudan and Mali.

I have not always easy to see, although nothing can be ruled out.

The situation in Southern Sudan is catastrophic, and the characters right now tends to indicate that it will be worse, but a large UN force is already in place. [Must have resources.]

And if the UN force in Mali suffer from challenges it fails, I think rather in other efforts to deal with the situation.

Personally, I would probably rather see an option for operation in Libya. The situation there deteriorates continuously, and although the United Nations through its special envoy Bernardino Leon makes meritorious efforts to reach a political solution success has so far been limited. 

Would begin to achieve success, it is well not entirely inconceivable that there could be a need for a force that can quickly secure some key installations or functions. Such a task would battle to have the potential to solve.

Obviously there are also other situations that could arise - including a new collapse in the Central African Republic.

To secure parts of the "line of contact" between the separatist Russian groups in eastern Ukraine and the rest of the Ukraine would be such, but the likelihood that the EU could collect himself to such a decision, I believe can best be described as non-existent.  [If sh*t hits the fan in Ukraine, CB doesn't think the EU will have its sh*t together so as to reach an immediate/quick enough decision to deploy the rapid response play-group.  Or so it would appear.  But it could be a trick.  Maybe they're ready to pounce.  ]

In an effort is necessary decision by EU foreign ministers, and it requires no object. Thereafter, rapid decisions of the respective countries, and in Sweden, it is then that the government proposes the parliament a decision by a rapid procedure which it developed a model.

How the Swedish government would react in a situation where the EU wanted a stake of battle, no one knows today, but first, we know that the Greens are almost always been opposed to thoughts like these, and secondly, we know that the money that was previously reserved for a possible effort is disappearing in other directions.

In some places there are those who say that the investment in battle taking resources and energy from the work of national defense, and that it is now high time to saddle up on.

I do not agree with.

Let us not forget that the defense resolutions 2000 and 2004 were written off almost entirely on national defense task. The work of the battle groups was then an important way to ensure quality development in the Defence Forces in association with international collaboration. Without this work, we had been in a significantly worse position today. [Purpose of battle groups ('quality developement' & 'collaboration' ... sold as a domestic defence force investment (how clever); how financial sleight of hand, of sorts, does the trick -- ie a question of allocation, I guess.]

And although the national defense tasks now - and rightly so! - Come into sharper focus, Sweden should not abdicate when it comes to international peace and stabilitertsinsatser.  [Hahaha ... it's not about peace & stability; it's about neo-con agenda on a global scale.]

We are left with a small part in NATO's training mission in Afghanistan, are included in the EU's training efforts in Somalia and Mali, is now entering the demanding UN mission in Mali and will now once again be featured in the EU naval mission in the Indian Ocean.

And the world around Europe's borders have hardly been peaceful and stable in recent years. That the EU would dispose of the instrument battle groups IS would hardly responsibly.

But the coming months may become decisive.



Source:  https://carlbildt.wordpress.com/2015/01/04/vad-hander-med-nbg15-ar-var-beredskap-nog/

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Pressed for time.  No sleep.  Massive on-line binge.
Might come back to this. 

Been good reading and seeing CB's views, although a pain having to make out the wonky Google translation.

Some good information there about Swedish domestic scenario and the EU nations relations, I guess.

Will come back to this.  Excuse any typos.  Rushed.